Sanmar Shipyards has delivered two line-handling pusher crafts to Targe Towing as part of the Scotland-based operator’s ongoing fleet upgrade its vessels servicing the Hound Point oil export terminal on the Firth of Forth. Iyidere series are an additional class of workboat in Sanmar’s portfolio and are based on the RAmbler 1200 design [...]
Sanmar Shipyards will deliver the second very high performance ASD RAstar 2800 tug, designed with a sponsoned hull form, to long-established Italian operator Rimorchiatori Napoletani S.R.L. in May 2021. She will be the exact sister of BAIA delivered back in May 2020 to Napoli by Sanmar’s own delivery crew. Sanmar has previously delivered [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has sold the tug Sirapinar Xll to Portland Harbour Authority which operates the former Royal Navy harbour at Portland, Dorset, on the UK’s south coast. Formerly operating as part of Sanmar’s own fleet, the 2019-built Sirapinar Xll is a twin Z-drive, diesel powered tugboat designed for maximum efficiency when performing ship-handling duties [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has signed six vessel contracts together totalling US$33.46 million with the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) in Pakistan for four high-performance state-of-the-art tugboats and two pilot boats. The tugs are scheduled to be delivered in 12 months and the pilot boats in 10. The contracts were awarded following a hard-fought international tendering process [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has delivered another vessel in its popular Delicay series of powerful compact tugboats – this time to its own fleet. Like its sister tugs, Delicay Vlll is a versatile Z-drive tractor tug built to Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd’s exclusive to Sanmar TRAktor-Z 2500SX design, created in close partnership with the [...]
A ground-breaking historic free trade deal between Türkiye and the UK that provides vital certainty for businesses and protects thousands of jobs in both countries is excellent news says Sanmar Shipyards, which has delivered a total of 24 tugs to UK operators. The trade deal, which came into force on 1st of January, [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has reported a record year of all times of delivery of 30 tugs during 2020. 13 of these were for overseas clients with 10 more delivered to Turkish tugboat operators. 7 of these joined to Sanmar’s own fleet. Overseas operators from UK, Canada, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Oman, Seychelles, UAE and Panama took [...]
Sanmar Shipyards has sold another of its hugely popular multi-purpose technologically advanced Bogacay Class tugboats, this time to fellow Turkish company Eren Energy. Built in 2018 at Sanmar’s state-of-the-art purpose-built Altinova Shipyard, Bogacay XXXlll is an example of the exclusive to Sanmar RAmparts 2400SX design from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd. The modern [...]
The first of two tugs sold by Sanmar Shipyards to Canadian West Coast operator Seaspan Marine Transportation has arrived safely at its new home in Vancouver following a 12,500 nautical mile, 55-day journey. Delivered under its own steam by a crew from The Netherlands-headquartered maritime delivery company Redwise, the 2015-built tug has been renamed [...]
Turkish tugboat operator Arpas has returned to Sanmar Shipyards to buy two tugs to join its fleet. Arpas, which is headquartered at Ambarli on the Sea of Marmara, has bought two very different tugs from Sanmar to meet its various operational needs. Nehir is one of the tug builder and operator’s fleet vessels and [...]